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One was shock at the bizarre creatures under his command.
Although before this, Gaven had briefly introduced them to her.
But hearing about them was one thing, and actually seeing them was another.
Treants, Pikespirits, Shadows, even the mounts were intelligent horses, with very few humans to be seen.
No wonder he had gone to Thacel to try to obtain immigrants from her.
Secondly, it was his terrifying personal combat prowess.
In fact, Zalanda had already felt this the moment they met.
But it had only been on a defensive level.
She had exhausted every trick in the book and hadn't been able to scratch him, which had left her exhausted and allowed him to seize the opportunity to breach her defenses.
But against a Giant Dragon, mere defensive power was far from sufficient, the most important was attack power.
Breaking through its defenses was the only way to possibly defeat it.
Now that Gaven had done just that, it fully demonstrated that he had both offense and defense.
